Sidley is representing Evri, a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (“Apollo”), in its merger with DHL eCommerce (“DHL”), the e-commerce logistics specialist of DHL Group.
DHL will acquire a significant minority stake and merge its British e-commerce unit into Evri, one of the UK’s largest parcel delivery companies, to create the UK’s premier parcel delivery business. Evri will remain majority-owned by Apollo.
The combined group will deliver over one billion parcels and one billion letters annually with a team of over 30,000 couriers and van drivers, 12,000 employees, and a fleet of 8,000 vehicles.
Sidley previously advised Apollo in its acquisition of Evri from Advent International in Q3 2024.
The cross-practice and cross-jurisdictional Sidley team was led by Private Equity partners Gerald Brant and Jonathon Hamill, counsel Florian Kamp, and managing associate Filippo Durazzo. The wider team included Jeffrey Kochian, Björn Holland, Brittany Harrison, John Godfrey, David Horan, Erika Cohen, Ed Roper, Alex Down, Daria Jepps, Sophie Stevens, Kimberley Vanderspar, Camilla Tagliabue, Yanaisha Sydamah, Jagata Swaminathan, Yeonjoo Ban, and project assistant Lynn Horowitz (Private Equity/M&A); Jason Menzies, Ellie Verran, Fraser Tudor, and Corinna Linhardt (Tax); Jonathan Lafferty and Sophia Bangham (Commercial Litigation and Disputes); Peter McCorkell (Labor, Employment and Immigration); E. Kyle Barnett, Adia Brantley, and IP transactions specialist Raza Siddiqui (Technology and Life Sciences Transactions); and Rachpal Thind and Chloe Francis (Banking and Financial Services).
